samba - Sep 1999 - MS Visual Developer and Samba

I am running samba-2.0.3-8 on Redhat 6.2 in five global locations. All
are fine except one. In this location when a user runs MS Visual
Developer they are able to open, save compile and edit files just fine.
However when they type either [Enter] or [Bkspc] to add or delete a
line, in this case only MSVD hangs for several seconds. Insert several
lines and wait 1+ minutes!!! I have watched the machine during this (ps
auwwx) and nothing is taking CPU (largest process is the users connect
at 0.7% of CPU - 

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
aigfpdev 29870  0.7  1.2  4600 1632 ?        S    13:06   1:06 smbd -D

I have also looked at the logs, again nothing...

[1999/09/08 09:02:38, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488)
  jean-michel (137.100.98.16) connect to service AIGFPDev as user
aigfpdev (uid503, gid=510) (pid 25639)
[1999/09/08 09:17:08, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(1838)
  call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented.
[1999/09/10 13:01:30, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(514)
  jean-michel (137.100.98.16) closed connection to service AIGFPDev
[1999/09/10 13:06:03, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488)
  jean-michel (137.100.98.16) connect to service AIGFPDev as user
aigfpdev (uid503, gid=510) (pid 29870)
[1999/09/10 13:07:49, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(1838)
  call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented.

I understand that editing files in MSVD which have obstensibly been read
into memory by MSVD should not require reading or writing to the Samba
share, but this problem does not occur with files opened from the user's
c-drive or other NT shares.

Any ideas where to look?

I was thinking of a general network trace using a Sniffer or software
that does the same (NetXRay, etc). My comment regarding the possibility
of such a trace actually referrs to the environment you are working in.
If you are in a shared environment, traces are easy to capture since all
traffic is received by every node on the network. 

If you are in a switched environment, you need to either setup a mirror
port on the switch so that you can monitor traffic at either the
workstation or at the server port, or you need to obtain an inline
analyzer such as those made by Wandel and Golterman. These (pricey)
analyzers install between the switch port and the network node (again,
workstation or server) and allow traffic to pass through to the port or
node while capturing all traffic sent through that port.


"Hieb, Michael" wrote:
> 
> However I am intrigued by the idea of a trace. Do you have any idea how
> to trace MSVD? I know of none.
> 

-- 
John J. LeMay Jr.
NJMC, LLC.
http://www.njmc.com